The line that circles the earth half-way between the North and South Poles.
What is the equator?
100
The units that scientists use to locate positions on Earth's surface.
What are degrees?
100
The topography of an area is dermined by the area's ___________, ___________, and __________________.
Elevation, relief, and landforms.
100
You travel a total of _____ degrees if you circle the globe completely and return to the spot from which you departed.
What is 360 degrees?
200
A landform that has high elevation and more or less a level surface.
What is a plateau?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! The feature of a map that relates distance on the map to distance on Earth's surface.
What is the scale?
200
A satellite-based system that can precisely determine latitude and longitude for opints on Earth's surface.
What is the Gobal Positioning System?
200
This connects points of equal elevation.
What is a contour line?
200
A spherical model of Earth's entire surface.
What is a globe?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! This term describes the difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area.
What is relief?
300
The distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
300
Each bit of digitized image in a satellite map.
What is a pixel?
300
Every fifth contour line.
What is an index contour?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! The vast or gently rolling grassland in the interior of North America.
What are the Great Plains?
400
One major differnce between a coastal plain and an interior plane.
What is elevation?
400
A framework of lines that helps to transfer points on Earth's three-dimensional surface onto a flat map.
What is a map projection?
400
The process by which mapmakers convert the location of map points to numbers.
What is digitizing?
400
The change in elevation from one contour line to the next.
What is a contour interval?
400
It would always be easy to walk up a slope represented by this.
What are contour lines that are far apart?
500
The Rocky Mountains have _________ relief and __________ elevation.
What is high relief and high elevation?
500
Compare and contrast a map and a globe.
Ms. Philbin's decision.
500
For the GPS system to work, at any given time there must be.......
At least three GPS satellites above the horizon.
500
Describe how you would draw a steep cliff on a topographic map.
Many contour lines drawn very close together to indicate a steep change in elevation.
500
The specific map projection that allows mapmakers to show a curved Earth on a flat surface. With this map projection, size and shape of landmasses become more and more distorted toward the north and south poles.